9/25/12-CAFO ISSUED.PENALTY OF $62,620 DUE IN 30 DAYS.
ALLEGATIONS:
ON OR ABOUT SEP 15, 2011, AN INSPECTION WAS CONDUCTED BY EPA AND TDEC TO DETERMINE COMPLIANCE WITH THE PCB REGS. AT TIME OF INSPECTION FACILITY WAS IN OPERATION.
PURSUANT TO 40 CFR 761.40(k)(1) AND (2), PCB ITEMS MUST BE MARKED WITH Ml MARK.INSPECTORS OBSERVED 3 UNMARKED PCB TRANSFORMERS IN THE MACHINE SHOP SUBSTATION AND A BANK OF 8 UNMARKED PCB CAPACITORS IN THE LOCK OLD BOILER ROOM. ALSO, THE ENTRANCE TO THE OLD BOILER ROOM, WHICH CONTAINED PCB EQUIPMENT, WAS UNMARKED. VIOLATION OF 40 CFR 761.40(k)(1) AND (2).
PURSUANT TO 40 CFR 761.65(c)(1), CERTAIN PCB ITEMS SUCH AS NON-LEAKING PCB ARTICLES AND PCB EQUIPMENT MAY BE STORED TEMPORARILY IN AN AREA THAT DOES NOT COMPLY WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF 40 CFR 761.65(b) OF THIS SECTION FOR UP TO 30 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THEIR REMOVAL FROM SERVICE, PROVIDED THAT A NOTATION IS ATTACHED TO THE PCB ITEM OR A PCB CONTAINER (CONTAINING THE ITEM) INDICATING THE DATE THE ITEM WAS REMOVED FROM SERVICE. INSPECTORS OBSERVED 3 PCB TRANSFORMERS IN THE MACHINE SHOP SUBSTATION THAT HAD BEEN DISCONNECTED AND STORED FOR DISPOSAL. ALSO THE 16 OUT-OF-SERVICE PCB CAPACITORS WERE STORED FOR DISPOSAL IN THE EXTERIOR CANOPY SECTION OF THE FORMER PLATING OPERATION BULIDING. THESE UNITS HAD NO REMOVED-FROM-SERVICE DATE NOTATION ATTACHED TO THEM. VIOLATION OF 40 CFR 761.65(c)(1).
PURSUANT TO 40 CFR 761.65(c)(2), NON-LEAKING AND STRUCTURALLY UNDAMAGED PCB LARGE HIGH VOLTAGE CAPACIT